Lavender Cotton
By Lou Paun
Lavender Cotton (Santolina) - Dwarf, half-shrubby plants, of neat habit and pretty hoary foliage. One of the most distinct and useful of them is S.
Lavender infusion
Lavender infusion is prepared with 5 teaspoons of dried flowers put in a cup of boiling water. This is used externally for washing and disinfecting wounds and ulcerations.
Lavender
Every garden should have one of these beauties.
English lavender is the most fragrant, but Spanish lavender's deep purple 'rabbit ears' stand out in garden beds.
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Lavender
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common name for any plant of the genus Lavandula, herbs or shrubby plants of the family Labiatae ( family), most of which are native to the Mediterranean region but naturalized elsewhere. The true lavender (L.
Lavender Surprise Butterfly Bush
Buddleja davidii 'Lavender Surprise'
Lavender, fragrant, spikes to 8" long are born in profusion from spring to fall. Grey green, velvety foliage on a large arching shrub. Attracts butterflies. Fast growing.
Lavender is native to the Mediterranean region. Through thousands of years of human attention, lavender has been selected for a variety of characteristics that enhance its value in the garden.
Lavender (Lavandula) is an easy to grow, evergreen shrub that produces masses of beautifully scented flowers above green or silvery-grey foliage. This drought-tolerant plant thrives in a sunny border, container or herb garden.
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Lavender Cotton
Scientific Name: Santolina chamaecyparissus L.
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Family: Asteraceae ...
Lavender Globe Lily
Related to Onions, Garlic and Leeks, Ornamental Onions are grown for their dense clusters of flowers, which look like lollipops. Height varies from 6 inches to 5 feet. Use for rock gardens, naturalizing and flower borders.
Lavender Mist
This big, bodacious, clump-forming plant has lots of appeal. Deep wine purple stems are topped with broad umbels, of bright, lavender clusters accented by yellow stamens, in July and August. Dainty, maidenhair fern-like foliage.
Lavender are evergreen, perennial and sometimes woody flowering shrubs, grown for their aromatic foliage and beautiful flower heads. Most make an effective, low hedge. Trim hedge in spring to maintain compact habit.
Mona Lavender in the Landscape
The colorful blooms of Mona Lavender make the plants an ideal choice for any bed or border.
French Lavender
You may see French lavender grown more as an ornamental plant -- it doesn't emit the traditional fragrance (its scent is more like camphor) that English lavenders and lavandins do.
Lavender flowers yield abundant nectar which yields a high quality honey for beekeepers. Lavender monofloral honey is produced primarily in the nations around the Mediterranean, and marketed worldwide as a premium product.
Lavender (Lavandula sp.) should be pruned back immediately after bloom to keep the plant compact and neat.
Lavender Lady (Lavandula)
A very nice tight and compact version of English Lavender that can actually bloom from seed the first year! This makes this a usable lavender even north of its normal range as an annual.
Lavender is native to the Mediterranean and northern Africa. Wildly popular, this hardy perennial is now grown around the world. In the flower garden or herb garden, Lavender is attractive with it's grayish foliage.
"Lavender Beauty" Yarrow
"Lavender Beauty" milfoil or yarrow requires full sun in coastal gardens, but can do with a tiny bit of shade in hotter inland gardens.
Sea lavender is a rosette-forming perennial with mid- to dark-green leaves to 12 inches long, occasionally to 24 inches. Deep lavender-blue flowers are borne in panicles made of spikelets on wiry stems.
Begonia Lavender
( Lavender Begonia )
Begonias are tender perennials, grown for their colorful flowers and foliage. Most begonias can be grown outdoors in pots, in the ground, or in hanging baskets in filtered light and moist, but well drained soil.
Spanish lavender has dark purple bracts topped with a ‘butterfly' of lighter lavender bracts. Lavandula stoechas ‘Otto Quast' is a longer stalked version of Spanish Lavender with even more showy bracts than the original.
Named after lavender expert Professor A.O. Tucker of Delaware State University, the English lavender, Lavandula angustifolia 'Tucker's Early Purple' is a compact, erect plant.
Agapanthus 'Lavender Haze'
Genus: Agapanthus
Cultivar: 'Lavender Haze'
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Aubrieta 'Lavender Gem' vernac. Aubretia , Aubrieta
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Blooming Time: Lavender flowers are axillary, 1-3 on slender peduncles from spring-fall. Individual flowers are 1½ inches across.
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Limonium sinuatum (Statice, Sea-Pink, Sea-Lavender) ...
Lavender Twist redbud (Cercis canadensis 'Covey')
Height and spread: 2.5 to 3 m
Cultivation: Full sun to part shade; most soils except those that are very well drained or permanently wet
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Lavender (Lavandula species): A number of different species are grown, but the English lavender is the best-known and least-adapted to growing in Southern heat.
Lavender (Perennial) There are 28 species of lavender, all with linear leaves and spikes of flowers ranging from blue to white. Lavender is used for cooking as well as for its medicinal properties.
Lavender (Lavandula vera)
Description
Lavender is a many-branched, somewhat woody, perennial plant growing 1 ½ to 3 feet tall. The narrow leaves are about 2 inches long and have a pleasing gray-green color.
'Lavender Lassie' Roses (Introduced - 1960) While not exactly lavender, the semi double, strongly scented flowers of this hybrid musk do have definite overtones of blue mixed in with the pink, ...
'Lavender Lady' - This plant flowers profusely with panicles of lavender florets that are fragrant. It is one of the best choices for warmer areas, as well, as it blooms reliably with little winter chill.
Lavender Cotton; aka,
Grey Santolina, or
The Petite Cypress
Some years back, Granny Artemis bought an eency tiny pot of the evergreen perennial subshrub Lavender Cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus formerly S. incana).
Lavender variety - Odontonema callistachyum
Lavender variety - Odontonema callistachyum
Pink variety - Odontonema callistachyum
Odontonema cuspidatum, Odontonema strictum, Odontonema callistachyum
Family: Acanthaceae
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Lavender and pink flossflower spill attractively onto a brick walkway.
Ageratum is typically seen in colors ranging from purple to blue to lavender and pink. A white flowering variety is also occasionally encountered.
Lavender and Its Many Uses
Lavender is a colourful and fragrant garden plant, but it can also be used as an essential oil, in tea, in cooking, as an antiseptic and to help de-stress.
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Lavender essential oil, when diluted with a carrier oil, is commonly used as a relaxant with massage therapy. Products for home use, such as lotions, eye pillows (including lavender flowers or the essential oil itself) and bath oils, etc.
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Lavenders - How to grow them : The newer, hardier varieties of lavenders have helped to bring this group of low shrubs back into popularity. So have the various gardening television programmes.
Lavender Dream. The delightful shade of lavender-blue and its white throat make this outstanding variety specially attractive, its nicely formed florets and perfect carriage adding to its beauty and distinction.
Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender. Blooms heavily in the Spring and Fall. Will have some flowers on and off throughout the year. Flowers start off purple and change to a lighter shade of lavender with age.
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Dried lavender flowers remain beautiful and fragrant for years.
My first attempts to dry flowers were less than spectacular. Some flowers didn't dry at all: They composted. Countless others turned out well, if you like the color brown.
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Lavender Cotton
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Hebe ‘Lavender Lace' (syn Hebe ‘Boulder Lake') forms an upright, branched, open, evergreen bush growing to 40-60 in (1-1.5 m) high. The narrow, spear-shaped, green leaves are about 1 in (2.5 cm) long.
Flower Color: Lavender, Magenta, Purple, Red
Foliage: Deciduous
Height: 12 ft. to 15 ft.
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The flowers fade to lavender, with a pink bar. It almost appears as two Clematis planted together, since flower colors vary in their flowering time.
This vigorous grower produces abundant blossom early in the season, repeating through late summer.
Common lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
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Santolina chamaecyparissus (Lavender Cotton)
Santolina ericoides
Santolina pinnata
Santolina rosmarinifolia
Santolina rosmarinifolia (Green Lavender Cotton, Green Santolina)
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higoense 'Bandit' (dwarf plant with red-edged leaves and white flowers), Epimedium grandiflorum 'Benedict's Violet' (lavender flowers), Epimedium grandiflorum var.
This magnificent tree is famous for its 2-inch lavender bells in summer and the carpet of fallen blossoms that forms around it. Before flowering, the foliage, which is extremely finely divided, is also highly attractive.
Field Marks: This shrub usually has spine-tipped branches, succulent leaves up to 1/4 inch wide, and blue or lavender, 4- or 5-parted, tubular flowers.
Habitat: Brackish or saline marshes and shores, mangrove swamps.
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Flower: Beautiful, lavender blue, tubular, 1 inch long, appearing in dense 6 to 10 inch terminal clusters in spring; ...
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